The shrimp test is one before which physically strong men have broken down, while the seemingly weak have displayed amazing fortitude.

In these days, when it behoves every man among us to be at his best, we view this famine in shrimps with grave concern, and we trust that the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries is alive to the significance of this crisis.


Publisher's Column.

"Colonel Repington's Diary.

New Books.

The Revelation of St. John.

New Fiction.

The Autobiography of Judas Iscariot."—Scotch Paper.

And Margot next week.